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College Skills 101: From fearful
-Features, p.5
Smallenberger tops the
links at Wisconsin-
Oshkosh Golf Invitational
-Sports, p. 12
Stairway to Heaven?... Nikki
Returning players
spur tennis team
to victory in first
match
-Sports, p. 14
Suite living: luxurious New House makes its debut
By Diane Tasic
Staff Writer
Imagine walking into a nice hotel.
Balconies overlook the front lobby; some-one
plays the piano in the background.
Now imagine that this hotel is a residence
hall, and you have Illinois Wesleyan's
New House, a four-story, $6.85 million
residence hall located on Emerson St.
between Dolan and Dodds.
Many students are bothered by the fact
the name "New" House will be obsolete in
a couple of years.
IWU President Minor Myers, jr.
explained that it is currently named this
because IWU didn't want to cause confu-sion
by temporarily naming the hall after
Emerson Street, only to possibly change its
name later.
"Buildings are usually named for major
donors, and we don't have a new donor yet.
There's no name to announce," Myers said.
Each suite in New House consists of a
living room, a private bathroom and bed-rooms
which accommodate two people.
The bedrooms have walk-in closets and are
equipped with stackable loft furniture.
The living rooms include a couch, side
table and two sofa chairs. Each suite is also
equipped with wiring for Internet and cable
television access, as well as controllable
thermostats in each living room and bed-room
area.
In addition to the luxuries of the suites
themselves, New House includes kitch-enettes
and gas fireplaces in the floor
lounges, an elevator, laundry rooms on
three of the four floors, a grand piano in the
main lounge, bicycle storage and an out-door
balcony which will eventually over-look
a completed courtyard.
"I really like the ice machine in the
kitchen and the fireplace you can turn on
with a switch," senior Joel Ansier said.
Sophomore Julie Purpura finds living in
New House definitely preferable to her
previous residence hall.
"I am impressed with the amount of
detail that has gone into the decorating. For
instance, going without drapes for two
weeks is a small price to pay to ensure that
they will adhere to the color scheme of the
suites," Purpura said.
Although New House seems to have
everything in place, some residents are
finding that it isn't perfect yet. Senior resi-dent
Emily Cromwell wishes there were
bulletin boards in the rooms.
"There's nowhere to hang things right
now," she said.
Other residents have also complained of
the cable television not being installed,
lack of all phone jacks working and lack of
water pressure.
Even though New House is still correct-ing
small problems and making improve-ments,
students and staff are still glad to
have it on IWU's campus.
"The students benefit from the new hall
by having more of their interests met in the
housing," Dean of Students Debra Wood
aid
Darcy Greder, Assistant Dean of
Students-Residential Life added that a lot
of the new hall's construction was based on
the ideas of students. Student surveys and
an open forum took place last spring,
allowing students to express their opinions
on New House's features.
"Students indicated the importance of
space. The loft system was chosen because
students wanted to create varied options [in
bedroom arrangements]," Greder said.
The new hall houses a total of 118 sopho-more,
junior and senior students. These
upperclassmen residents were chosen to
live in New House by a housing lottery
held last spring. Those who had the neces-sary
lottery numbers to acquire a room in
see NEW HOUSE p. 4
Wesleyan Economics
journal goes online
By Erika Rozinek
Staff Writer
Illinois Wesleyan University, in part-nership
with Illinois State University, is
about to make history by operating the
world's first fully on-line economics
journal.
The journal, University Avenue
Undergraduate Journal of Economics,
will be produced by three faculty mem-bers
and two student editors from ISU
and one faculty member and three stu-dent
editors from IWU. The IWU student
editors, Andrew Beath, Bryan McCannon
and Ashwin Capur, all economics majors,
will be overseeing the acceptance and
revision of incoming submissions.
"This will give students the ability to
develop organizational leadership," said
Prof. Mike Seeborg, the IWU faculty
member overseeing the journal.
"Being involved in something fully
unique,can only do me good in terms of
resumes," Beath said.
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics
Foundation funded the on-line journal
with a $10,000 grant, which covered
start-up costs, computer hardware and
paying student editors.
University Avenue is modeled after
IWU's Park Place Economist, a printed
undergraduate economics journal which
is one of three in the world. However,
there will be no printed copies of
University Avenue. The entire process of
soliciting and accepting submissions will
be done on-line. This increases the speed
at which material is ready for publication.
"As soon as an article is accepted and
revised it can be posted immediately,"
Seeborg said.
New submissions will come in, thereby
constantly updating the journal, until a
date when the editors decide the issue
should be closed. At that point, a new
issue of the journal will be started.
The speed at which articles can be
accepted and published is one of the best
aspects of the new journal, Seeborg said.
"That's neat for undergrads going out
in the job market to have their work pub-lished
immediately," he said.
Plagarism poses a potential problem to
the on-line journal, because it will be
hard to check the validity of an on-line
submission. To avoid this, the staff plans
to require letters of recommendations
from professors along with the article
being submitted. These letters would
vouch for the originality of the submitted
article.
University Avenue is expected to draw
attention to and increase student aware-ness
of IWU.
"If it's successful, it will definitely
generate goodwill for the university and
the economics department here and at
ISU," Seeborg said.
"It is something to be quite proud of,
because it's unprecedented for an under-graduate
economics department to put
together an on-line journal," Beath said.
The on-line journal's Internet address
is:
http://www.econ.ilstu.edu/ECON_WEB_
PAGES/ECON/JOURNAL/SPLASH/H
TML
IWU renews focus on volunteerism through community service
Students look for ways to give more to people in need with commitment to programs in class and extracurricular activities
By Kathryn Eissfeldt
Staff -Writer
Last year, Illinois Wesleyan
President Minor Myers, jr., decided
that IWU would make an official
commitment to student volun-teerism
by joining the Illinois
Campus Compact for Community
Service (ICCCS).
The 16 public and private
schools that participate in the
ICCCS have all made similar com-mitments
to encourage service
learning and raise the level of stu-dent
and public awareness.
The program is intended to bene-fit
not only the communities that
receive aid from college volun-teers,
but also the students them-selves.
The ICCCS owes its existence to
Leadership in Volunteer
Experience (LIVE), an organiza-tion
that voted in 1992 to create a
consortium of schools to spread the
impact and involvement of volun-teering
on campuses across the
state. According to its new official
status as a member school, IWU
will be able to send a representative
to the annual LIVE conference at
Rockford College in October.
"(I) attribute the rise in
student involvement to
an increasing student
awareness and to the vol-unteers
themselves."
-- Warren Kistner
Career Center director
IWU has long been committed to
community service. Sociology pro-fessor
James Sikora works with a
program called Cabrini
Connection, which pairs disadvan-taged
kids from the Chicago area
with college students who act as
mentors. Two summers ago IWU
hosted a week-long summer camp
that was sponsored by GTE, State
Farm Insurance and IWU.
Two dozen high school freshmen
attended the program, which com-bined
subjects such as physics,
mathematics, astronomy, writing,
trust-building exercises, volleyball,
a cookout and a scavenger hunt.
IWU associate professor Narendra
Jaggi designed the curriculum to
span various disparate disciplines.
A growing number of students at
IWU are getting involved in the
many service-oriented events on
campus and in Bloomington-
Normal. The first major campus
event is Make a Difference Day, an
annual nationwide event that was
started by USA Weekend.
Three years ago, only a dozen
students were involved, but the
very next year that number rose to
over one hundred. Last year's
turnout reached 250, and organiz-ers
are hoping again for a large stu-dent
interest for the Oct. 25 event,
despite the conflict with IWU
Homecoming.
Career Center director Warren
Kistner, who has been involved
with the event in previous years,
attributes the rise in student
involvement to an increasing stu-dent
awareness and to the volun-teers
themselves.
The Make a Difference Day
activities for last year included rak-ing
leaves and painting houses for
the elderly or infirm, cleaning up
Constitution Trail and Miller Park
and hosting the Red Ribbon
Halloween Party.
IWU students were among the
almost 1,100 community volun-teers
who worked on about 55 pro-jects
that improved the Twin
Cities.
A similar national event called
Volunteer Weekend is held on
campus in the spring. Besides these
two events, there are many other
opportunities to volunteer. The best
way to get involved is to contact
Michael Paulson, the student vol-unteer
coordinator, at the Career
Center at 556-3071. The Career
Center can put students in touch
with local agencies of particular
interest to the student.
For example, students interested
in education could volunteer to
tutor elementary students in the
Bloomington schools. For the stu-dent
who does not have time to
volunteer on a weekly basis, there
is a list of students who are "on
call" at one or more agencies,
should a particular need appear in
the community.
Another facet of student volun-teerism
that the ICCCS hopes to
encourage is service learning,
which incorporates community ser-vice
with classroom lessons in
sociology. Georganne Rundblad
has been teaching such a class for
five years: Sociology 120: Social
Problems.
Although other professors focus
on different aspects of sociology in
their sections, Rundblad requires
20 hours per semester of volunteer-ing
to fulfill the service learning
component of the class. Students
were also to keep a journal of their
experiences and how they related
to the topics the class was dis-cussing.
During the first few days of
class, representatives from various
social service agencies in town
spoke to the class about volunteer-ing
opportunities, including the
Boys and Girls Clubs, Project Oz,
Community Health Care Clinics,
McLean County Nursing Home
and PATH (phone crisis hotline).
Rundblad's students work close-ly
with these organizations
throughout the semester, and she
encourages them to look for ser-vice
opportunities in a field rele-vant
to the student's particular
career, personal, or political inter-ests.
Most students in Sociology
120 are not sociology majors but
do find working in a volunteer
capacity a rewarding way of learn-ing
about social problems.
The new ICCCS compact shows
IWU's continuing emphasis on
volunteering, whether it be service
learning in Sociology 120 or in
grassroots community organiza-tions.
Volunteering is not only a
way to get involved on campus ,
but it also has positive effects on
the community as a whole.
Dykas thinks: so -Opinion, p. 8
Police department reminds drivers to play it smart
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Bloomington-Normal area. Officers will be driving the car around to spread the message. Jenny McCudden/The Argus
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College Skills 101: From fearful
-Features, p.5
Smallenberger tops the
links at Wisconsin-
Oshkosh Golf Invitational
-Sports, p. 12
Stairway to Heaven?... Nikki
Returning players
spur tennis team
to victory in first
match
-Sports, p. 14
Suite living: luxurious New House makes its debut
By Diane Tasic
Staff Writer
Imagine walking into a nice hotel.
Balconies overlook the front lobby; some-one
plays the piano in the background.
Now imagine that this hotel is a residence
hall, and you have Illinois Wesleyan's
New House, a four-story, $6.85 million
residence hall located on Emerson St.
between Dolan and Dodds.
Many students are bothered by the fact
the name "New" House will be obsolete in
a couple of years.
IWU President Minor Myers, jr.
explained that it is currently named this
because IWU didn't want to cause confu-sion
by temporarily naming the hall after
Emerson Street, only to possibly change its
name later.
"Buildings are usually named for major
donors, and we don't have a new donor yet.
There's no name to announce," Myers said.
Each suite in New House consists of a
living room, a private bathroom and bed-rooms
which accommodate two people.
The bedrooms have walk-in closets and are
equipped with stackable loft furniture.
The living rooms include a couch, side
table and two sofa chairs. Each suite is also
equipped with wiring for Internet and cable
television access, as well as controllable
thermostats in each living room and bed-room
area.
In addition to the luxuries of the suites
themselves, New House includes kitch-enettes
and gas fireplaces in the floor
lounges, an elevator, laundry rooms on
three of the four floors, a grand piano in the
main lounge, bicycle storage and an out-door
balcony which will eventually over-look
a completed courtyard.
"I really like the ice machine in the
kitchen and the fireplace you can turn on
with a switch," senior Joel Ansier said.
Sophomore Julie Purpura finds living in
New House definitely preferable to her
previous residence hall.
"I am impressed with the amount of
detail that has gone into the decorating. For
instance, going without drapes for two
weeks is a small price to pay to ensure that
they will adhere to the color scheme of the
suites," Purpura said.
Although New House seems to have
everything in place, some residents are
finding that it isn't perfect yet. Senior resi-dent
Emily Cromwell wishes there were
bulletin boards in the rooms.
"There's nowhere to hang things right
now," she said.
Other residents have also complained of
the cable television not being installed,
lack of all phone jacks working and lack of
water pressure.
Even though New House is still correct-ing
small problems and making improve-ments,
students and staff are still glad to
have it on IWU's campus.
"The students benefit from the new hall
by having more of their interests met in the
housing," Dean of Students Debra Wood
aid
Darcy Greder, Assistant Dean of
Students-Residential Life added that a lot
of the new hall's construction was based on
the ideas of students. Student surveys and
an open forum took place last spring,
allowing students to express their opinions
on New House's features.
"Students indicated the importance of
space. The loft system was chosen because
students wanted to create varied options [in
bedroom arrangements]," Greder said.
The new hall houses a total of 118 sopho-more,
junior and senior students. These
upperclassmen residents were chosen to
live in New House by a housing lottery
held last spring. Those who had the neces-sary
lottery numbers to acquire a room in
see NEW HOUSE p. 4
Wesleyan Economics
journal goes online
By Erika Rozinek
Staff Writer
Illinois Wesleyan University, in part-nership
with Illinois State University, is
about to make history by operating the
world's first fully on-line economics
journal.
The journal, University Avenue
Undergraduate Journal of Economics,
will be produced by three faculty mem-bers
and two student editors from ISU
and one faculty member and three stu-dent
editors from IWU. The IWU student
editors, Andrew Beath, Bryan McCannon
and Ashwin Capur, all economics majors,
will be overseeing the acceptance and
revision of incoming submissions.
"This will give students the ability to
develop organizational leadership," said
Prof. Mike Seeborg, the IWU faculty
member overseeing the journal.
"Being involved in something fully
unique,can only do me good in terms of
resumes," Beath said.
The Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics
Foundation funded the on-line journal
with a $10,000 grant, which covered
start-up costs, computer hardware and
paying student editors.
University Avenue is modeled after
IWU's Park Place Economist, a printed
undergraduate economics journal which
is one of three in the world. However,
there will be no printed copies of
University Avenue. The entire process of
soliciting and accepting submissions will
be done on-line. This increases the speed
at which material is ready for publication.
"As soon as an article is accepted and
revised it can be posted immediately,"
Seeborg said.
New submissions will come in, thereby
constantly updating the journal, until a
date when the editors decide the issue
should be closed. At that point, a new
issue of the journal will be started.
The speed at which articles can be
accepted and published is one of the best
aspects of the new journal, Seeborg said.
"That's neat for undergrads going out
in the job market to have their work pub-lished
immediately," he said.
Plagarism poses a potential problem to
the on-line journal, because it will be
hard to check the validity of an on-line
submission. To avoid this, the staff plans
to require letters of recommendations
from professors along with the article
being submitted. These letters would
vouch for the originality of the submitted
article.
University Avenue is expected to draw
attention to and increase student aware-ness
of IWU.
"If it's successful, it will definitely
generate goodwill for the university and
the economics department here and at
ISU," Seeborg said.
"It is something to be quite proud of,
because it's unprecedented for an under-graduate
economics department to put
together an on-line journal," Beath said.
The on-line journal's Internet address
is:
http://www.econ.ilstu.edu/ECON_WEB_
PAGES/ECON/JOURNAL/SPLASH/H
TML
IWU renews focus on volunteerism through community service
Students look for ways to give more to people in need with commitment to programs in class and extracurricular activities
By Kathryn Eissfeldt
Staff -Writer
Last year, Illinois Wesleyan
President Minor Myers, jr., decided
that IWU would make an official
commitment to student volun-teerism
by joining the Illinois
Campus Compact for Community
Service (ICCCS).
The 16 public and private
schools that participate in the
ICCCS have all made similar com-mitments
to encourage service
learning and raise the level of stu-dent
and public awareness.
The program is intended to bene-fit
not only the communities that
receive aid from college volun-teers,
but also the students them-selves.
The ICCCS owes its existence to
Leadership in Volunteer
Experience (LIVE), an organiza-tion
that voted in 1992 to create a
consortium of schools to spread the
impact and involvement of volun-teering
on campuses across the
state. According to its new official
status as a member school, IWU
will be able to send a representative
to the annual LIVE conference at
Rockford College in October.
"(I) attribute the rise in
student involvement to
an increasing student
awareness and to the vol-unteers
themselves."
-- Warren Kistner
Career Center director
IWU has long been committed to
community service. Sociology pro-fessor
James Sikora works with a
program called Cabrini
Connection, which pairs disadvan-taged
kids from the Chicago area
with college students who act as
mentors. Two summers ago IWU
hosted a week-long summer camp
that was sponsored by GTE, State
Farm Insurance and IWU.
Two dozen high school freshmen
attended the program, which com-bined
subjects such as physics,
mathematics, astronomy, writing,
trust-building exercises, volleyball,
a cookout and a scavenger hunt.
IWU associate professor Narendra
Jaggi designed the curriculum to
span various disparate disciplines.
A growing number of students at
IWU are getting involved in the
many service-oriented events on
campus and in Bloomington-
Normal. The first major campus
event is Make a Difference Day, an
annual nationwide event that was
started by USA Weekend.
Three years ago, only a dozen
students were involved, but the
very next year that number rose to
over one hundred. Last year's
turnout reached 250, and organiz-ers
are hoping again for a large stu-dent
interest for the Oct. 25 event,
despite the conflict with IWU
Homecoming.
Career Center director Warren
Kistner, who has been involved
with the event in previous years,
attributes the rise in student
involvement to an increasing stu-dent
awareness and to the volun-teers
themselves.
The Make a Difference Day
activities for last year included rak-ing
leaves and painting houses for
the elderly or infirm, cleaning up
Constitution Trail and Miller Park
and hosting the Red Ribbon
Halloween Party.
IWU students were among the
almost 1,100 community volun-teers
who worked on about 55 pro-jects
that improved the Twin
Cities.
A similar national event called
Volunteer Weekend is held on
campus in the spring. Besides these
two events, there are many other
opportunities to volunteer. The best
way to get involved is to contact
Michael Paulson, the student vol-unteer
coordinator, at the Career
Center at 556-3071. The Career
Center can put students in touch
with local agencies of particular
interest to the student.
For example, students interested
in education could volunteer to
tutor elementary students in the
Bloomington schools. For the stu-dent
who does not have time to
volunteer on a weekly basis, there
is a list of students who are "on
call" at one or more agencies,
should a particular need appear in
the community.
Another facet of student volun-teerism
that the ICCCS hopes to
encourage is service learning,
which incorporates community ser-vice
with classroom lessons in
sociology. Georganne Rundblad
has been teaching such a class for
five years: Sociology 120: Social
Problems.
Although other professors focus
on different aspects of sociology in
their sections, Rundblad requires
20 hours per semester of volunteer-ing
to fulfill the service learning
component of the class. Students
were also to keep a journal of their
experiences and how they related
to the topics the class was dis-cussing.
During the first few days of
class, representatives from various
social service agencies in town
spoke to the class about volunteer-ing
opportunities, including the
Boys and Girls Clubs, Project Oz,
Community Health Care Clinics,
McLean County Nursing Home
and PATH (phone crisis hotline).
Rundblad's students work close-ly
with these organizations
throughout the semester, and she
encourages them to look for ser-vice
opportunities in a field rele-vant
to the student's particular
career, personal, or political inter-ests.
Most students in Sociology
120 are not sociology majors but
do find working in a volunteer
capacity a rewarding way of learn-ing
about social problems.
The new ICCCS compact shows
IWU's continuing emphasis on
volunteering, whether it be service
learning in Sociology 120 or in
grassroots community organiza-tions.
Volunteering is not only a
way to get involved on campus ,
but it also has positive effects on
the community as a whole.
Dykas thinks: so -Opinion, p. 8
Police department reminds drivers to play it smart
The Bloomington Police Department is using this vivid visual display to discourage drinking and driving in the
Bloomington-Normal area. Officers will be driving the car around to spread the message. Jenny McCudden/The Argus
I -t Ii
- --